Gewurztraminer Haguenau Bergheim Vendanges Tardives
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Foie gras, strong washed-rind cheeses like Munster, and spiced Sichuan or Thai cuisine.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic village of Bergheim, the Haguenau lieu-dit is renowned for its heavy marly-limestone soils, which impart a profound structural power and intense mineral backbone to the wines. Domaine Rolly Gassmann harnesses this terroir to craft a legendary Gewurztraminer Vendanges Tardives, a late-harvest masterpiece. The grapes are left on the vine to achieve overripeness, often kissed by noble rot (botrytis), before being meticulously hand-harvested. In the cellar, Pierre Gassmann practices a philosophy of extreme patience, allowing slow fermentations with indigenous yeasts and aging the wine for years in historic casks and bottles before release. This results in an incredibly opulent, texturally rich nectar bursting with exotic aromas of lychee, ginger, rose petals, and honeyed spices, balanced by a vibrant, life-giving acidity. The wine pays homage to Bergheim's medieval heritage, where winemaking has been a sacred art since the Roman era.
🍾 About the Producer
Domaine Rolly Gassmann emerged in 1967 through the marriage of Marie-Thérèse Rolly and Louis Gassmann, unifying two families with winemaking lineages in Alsace dating to 1676 and 1611 respectively. Situated in Rorschwihr along the complex Ribeauvillé fault line, the estate commands over 50 hectares characterized by a mosaic of 21 distinct limestone-dominant subsoil profiles. Opting out of the Alsace Grand Cru hierarchy in favor of expressing traditional historic lieux-dits, current winemaker Pierre Gassmann operates strictly within biodynamic rhythms. The viticultural approach champions late physiological and phenological harvesting, intentionally courting noble rot across micro-parcels. In the cellar, natural fermentations proceed unhurried for four to six months. Celebrated for an obsessive dedication to bottle maturation, Rolly Gassmann stores millions of bottles in a state-of-the-art multi-level cellar before commercial release. The benchmark portfolio spans opulent, long-lived expressions from lieux-dits such as Silberberg, Kappelweg, and Pflaenzerreben, alongside lusciously concentrated Vendanges Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles.
🍇 Grapes
Gewurztraminer
🍷 ABV
11.5-13%